2026 Nov
‘Tiny apartments’
‘Plane away the edges’
‘Parochial’
‘Nobody on our side’
‘Dropping his invisible ball’
‘Psychological spelunking’
‘Nothing ever changed’
‘Rubbed an eye with a knuckle’
‘Something you’re not an expert in.’
‘Lacking authenticity’
‘Eenie meenie minie mo’
‘Little elves’
‘Smarting’
‘Making a point’
‘Streetwalker’
‘Yobs v toffs’
‘Murkiness swarmed’
‘A thirty-minute job that could take eight months’
‘Links and screenshots’
‘A private victory’
‘Barfight’
‘Evil intent’
‘Breakfast’
‘Uncomfortable reading’
‘Made this known’
‘Schizoid attack’
‘Slough House’
‘Unless they waved banknotes.’
‘No chance in hell he was going to share that information.’
‘Olfactory’
‘The art of conscious living’
‘Straitjacket of unconsciousness’
‘Pervasive lack of awareness’
‘Mindfullness’
2026 Oct
Reviewing Books
‘Stormy shut-eye’
‘Git index’
‘Most mornings’
‘One soul fewer’
‘Mistaken policemen for friends’
‘Never mind’
Book Review: Slow Horses (2010)
‘Barrette’
‘More peopled’
‘Which direction the favours would flow’
‘The trouble with you lot’
‘The last person you trust is the one you just did a favour’
‘Alliances foundered’
‘Major problem’
‘The best kind. The ones you never meet.’
‘Unhealthy memory’
‘More deaths than picnics’
‘Know his way around a gym’
‘Verisimilitude’
‘Hitler’s birthday or something’
‘Immaterial’
‘Open windows’
‘Might appreciate it’
‘Everyone has to be someone’
‘If that’s all right’
‘Not as badly hurt as he’s dead’
‘Wrapped inside a pixel’
‘Lived in shoeboxes’
‘Fate and poor judgement’
‘Tortilla chips’
‘Washout’
‘Attempt at Everest’
‘Visible enemy’
Avoiding stress
‘Mad dogs’
‘Bounced and bashed’
‘Boot’
‘Everywhere’
‘Washed away’
Harry the Potter
‘Quenched by quotidian drudgery’
‘Connivance’
‘Keen on playing the judge’
‘Tell-tale’
2026 Sep
New Stream of Quotes
‘Flight fund’
‘Gherkin’
‘Fluttering things’
‘Keep an eye on the place’
‘Factotum’
‘Swallowed by the shadows’
‘Flying fart’
‘Flipside’
‘Sod all’
‘Tripped on his dick’
‘Wasn’t any good’
‘Measure’
‘Long enough to remove your coat’
‘Ring back’
‘Thumbs & bananas’
‘Hobbs’
‘Edges on which outcomes balanced’
‘Keep talking’
‘Smiled, but turned away’
‘Pretty special indeed’
‘Anywhere you’d want to cook a meal’
‘Half fun’
‘1 Feb 1940’
A thousand!
‘Danzig’
‘Finnish Democratic Republic’
2026 Aug
‘Something dragged round’
‘Fighting the same battles’
‘Shared Silence’
‘Under Wraps’
‘Magic was unavailable’
2026 Jul
‘Just want him to be unhappy’
‘Ruzzian minority’
‘Leaflets to Nazis’
‘What line would they take’
‘Hitler wants war’
‘Astrid in 1939’
‘Ho’s house’
‘Small victory’
‘Kicking down doors’
‘Battle lines’
‘Moving staircase’
‘Steps, one after another’
‘Exhausted white’
‘Slough House’
‘Deemed as being of account’
2026 Mar
‘© and ™’
‘Refrigerator parents’
‘Heroes have no choice’
2025 Dec
Impressions
Physical pain
2025 Sep
‘Shared silence’
‘Don’t think of’
‘Don’t worry’
2025 Aug
‘Real or not’
‘Meant to learn’
‘Magic was unavailable’
‘Haphazard’
‘The skins we slough’
‘Supposed to be doing’
‘Repeated enough’
‘Matter of time’
‘Bones’
‘Cared when it mattered’
Visible
‘You needed your need’
‘A tattered remnant’
‘Tattoo’
‘Surrender to amusement’
2025 Jul
‘Slough House Slow Horse’
‘Holding a stick’
‘Upgraded to a security threat’
‘Blew a raspberry’
‘Leaked’
‘A fort’
Cotton cloth
2025 Apr
Yellows and greys
‘Egg-Fried Rice’
‘Phlegmatic cool’
‘Interests of the Soviet Union had nothing to do with the life and well-being of its citizens.’
‘Gulag lacked space’
2025 Mar
Lost focus
2024 Sep
‘Kuromiya’
‘Manchukuo Number Two’
2024 Aug
‘Deathly quiet’
‘Victimhood of Stalin’
‘Collective farming is just bliss’
‘A land of milk and honey’
2024 May
‘NYT on Holodomor’
‘Galicia’
‘Imitative Pushkin’
2023 Oct
‘Dwell on dreams’
2022 Jul
‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’
‘Someplace else’
2020 Jul
‘Micromanaging’
‘Ray Dalio on AI’
‘On being stuck in one’s own head’
‘Business excellence and personal realization’
‘Managers’ Equipment’
2020 Jun
‘From tiny to big, challenges differ’
‘Knowing one’s weaknesses’
‘Agreements’
‘Principles’
‘Two choices’
‘Under stress’
‘Root causes diagnosed’
‘Uncorrelated bets’
‘Bad times coupled with good reflections’
‘More emotional than logical’
‘On judging people’
‘Predicting the future’
‘Go Slowly’
‘Meaning’
‘Boredom and Mediocrity’
2020 Apr
‘Engineer compliance’
‘Logic fails’
2020 Mar
‘Being remarkable’
‘MED’
2019 Dec
‘Volcano Ed’
‘Culture of impunity’
2019 Nov
‘Freedoms busily dismantling by the US.’
2019 Oct
‘Catatonic’
‘Controlling machines that are incapable of criticism.’
‘Getting paid to play God’
‘A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace’
‘The 2000s Internet’
2019 Sep
‘Hacking’
‘Denial of agency’
‘Super Mario Bros.’
‘Banking monopolies’
2019 Jun
‘Let the world move along’
‘Boolean Algebra Cats’
‘Bits’
‘Current, voltage, resistance as water’
‘Shift codes and escape codes’
‘Escape codes’
‘Louis Braille’
‘Catastrophizing’
‘A defeat response’
‘Caring creates courage and hope’
‘You can handle it’
‘Avoiding stress’
‘Embrace stress’
‘You may find yourself complaining about these experiences, as if your life has gone off course and there is some stress-free version of it out there waiting for you.’
‘Feeling burdened rather than uplifted by everyday duties is more a mindset than a measure of what is going on in your life.’
‘Loss of meaning’
‘Mother’s stress during pregnancy’
‘Mindset blindness’
‘Three-step process for practicing the new mindset whenever they felt stressed.’
‘I don’t belong’
‘Stress is helpful’
‘Stress mindsets are powerful because they affect not just how you think but also how you act.’
‘Goals and choices’
‘Aging’
‘Beliefs that become mindsets’
2019 May
‘Tiara’
2019 Mar
‘You must take no pleasure in the task, but neither must you look away.’
2018 Nov
‘New pathways were firing up in places that had been dark and barren.’
‘Freedom could be such a cruel and difficult thing’
‘Copying other people’s answers’
2018 Aug
‘It is the place where he is meant to be lost.’
2018 Jul
‘Lack of sleep is very much like ADHD’
‘Sufficient Sleep’
‘Uninterrupted sleep’
‘Negative feedback loop’
‘Sleep improving methods’
‘Go to the pub for a drink in the morning.’
‘Suprachiasmatic nucleus’
2018 Jun
‘Human artifice’
‘Literary form’
‘Emotion motion’
‘Chronic insomnia’
2018 May
‘Telomere health’
‘Education is the most effective way to address poverty and violence.’
‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction’
‘It is quite possible to lose a fight you refuse to acknowledge you are in.’
‘More polite titles or euphemisms for dictators’
‘Newspeak’
‘Upheaval and drama’
‘Khodorkovsky’
‘Shame the shameless’
‘He tolls for thee.’
‘Totalitarianism of one person’
‘Potential evil’
‘Monsters: born or made?’
‘Far from naive’
2018 Apr
‘It is the difference between people resenting that they are not free and people believing they do not deserve freedom.’
‘the export of Russia’s problems to its chosen adversaries’
‘A regime of sadopopulism’
‘Life itself becomes a manufactured crisis.’
‘Politics of eternity’
‘Oligarchy works as a patronage system that dissolves democracy, law, and patriotism.’
‘Politics of eternity’
‘I Know What You Need’
‘Russian bots’
‘News from Facebook’
‘Strategic relativism’
‘Russian proclamation of innocence’
‘Arrive in tanks’
‘Schizofascism’
‘Ukraine agreed to give up all nuclear weapons.’
‘Getting one’s own history wrong’
‘In Ukraine, language is a spectrum.’
‘Proizvol bespredel’
‘Discussing actual enemies would reveal actual weaknesses’
‘Divine totality’
‘Defensive Russia, always a victim’
‘Making an exception for itself’
‘Descriptive, not judgemental’
‘Your risk profile doesn’t stabilise until you’re about twenty-five.’
‘For a while – say, twenty years or more’
‘The private language’
‘As lightly as a bird’
‘Cheese’
‘Panic and pandemonium’
‘A liar by proxy’
‘Sad sex’
‘Later in life’
‘Co-dependency’
2018 Mar
‘A tone of voice normally attached’
‘Certain amount of cramp’
‘Dip into and out’
‘Put feelings into words’
‘Whence, why, whither’
‘Pathetically incapable of making a meal for ourselves’
‘There is panic and pandemonium waiting to break out inside all of us.’
‘Right and proper’
‘Amalgamate’
‘Mental clutter of theorising’
‘Cauterizes the heart’
‘Adulthood’
‘Understanding of the world’
‘Caboodle’
‘They definitely are’
‘An eight-year-old’s whine’
‘Car crash of cliché’
‘Escape both category and description’
‘If I failed to display negatives, then positives would be assumed.’
‘Awwwwww, I said, super naked.’
‘Flash-packer’
‘Art imitating life’
‘Balance’
2018 Feb
‘Like a lady’
‘Don’t overplan’
2018 Jan
‘Unlonely’
‘World-changing ethicist’
‘Forget it once’
‘Replace sleep’
‘Followed by’
‘Targeted memory reactivation’
‘Amazing breakthrough!’
‘Why do most 16-year-olds drive like they’re missing part of their brain? Because they are.’
‘Go the Fuck to Sleep’
‘And hence we have this book.’
‘The relationship became about talking about the relationship.’
‘Midnight’
2017 Dec
‘Half-life’
‘Melatonin’
‘Impressive facial hair’
2017 Nov
‘Novelist is not someone who answers questions but someone who asks them’
‘The fruits of one’s labor’
‘Always had to be strong.’
‘Respect children’s feelings even when they cannot understand them’
‘Explain things to them’
‘Child’s inner riches’
‘Bigot’
‘Valuations of self’
‘A result of repressed memories’
‘Boundless loneliness’
‘Our feelings will always reveal the true story.’
‘Artificial means’
‘Hidden cruelty’
‘Disrespect’
‘Little girls suffer additional discrimination’
‘Patterns of our parent’s behavior’
‘No effort whatsoever can change this fact.’
‘Access to our own real needs and feelings and the possibility of expressing them’
‘Addicted to the group itself’
‘Ready to throw away’
‘Vitality’
‘False self—something he has begun to identify and relinquish.’
‘Hungry and without shelter, but in freedom nevertheless’
‘Something more sensible’
‘A child needs to learn his limits’
‘Unconditional love’
‘Unconditional love’
‘The only causes’
‘Full attention and admiration’
‘Past dangers’
‘Being Himself’
‘Remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.’
‘Giving up their living selves’
‘Attuned to the mothers well-being’
‘Rapt attention’
‘Unconscious manipulation’
‘The creation of home’
‘Glass house’
‘…belittles her feelings to protect herself’
2017 Oct
‘Solitary confinement in another room’
‘Information that can be triggered by a later event.’
‘A measure of existential security’
‘Muster all his resources to this end’
‘The repression of brutal abuse’
‘Novelist’
‘Cloud my judgment’
‘The moon’
‘Complete faith’
‘Things they wish were the truth’
‘Better just leave it at that’
‘Gush blood’
‘Abate’
‘No numbered doorways’
2017 Aug
‘Chronic powerlessness’
2017 Jun
‘Think of anything to think about’
‘You are you’
‘Replaced’
‘Cries of cicadas’
‘Noticing’
‘Hunger’
‘Serious eyes’
2017 May
‘I is replaced by We’
‘Writing Therapy’
‘We’re going to live a long time’
‘Terminal illness’
‘Things that have weight have gravity’
‘A calling’
‘Live death to understand it’
‘Statistics’
‘Physically Debilitated’
‘An asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.’
‘None was forthcoming.’
‘The days are long, but the years are short.’
‘Unattainable prognostic ability’
‘Paperwork as patients’
‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici’
‘Hernia’
‘Cadavers’
‘Cadaver dissection’
‘Weightless’
‘Vocabulary’
‘A new dimension to my understanding’
‘Literature’
‘Defined the horizon’
‘Escapade’
‘What it felt like’
‘The only time’
‘Survived that part’
‘Upset’
‘Work schedule eased’
‘Slacked our thirst’
‘Craniotomy’
‘Service a new friendship’
‘Cannot afford it’
2017 Apr
‘Phoenix’
‘The gardener’
‘The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.’
‘Unreal reality’
‘Racing about your cage’
‘So few want to be rebels any more’
‘Thou art mortal’
‘Any risk you want’
‘Life’
‘Myself’
‘The gibbering pack’
‘Cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death’
‘Far-sighted and blind’
‘Think too many things’
‘Firemen’
‘Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.’
2017 Feb
‘Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time’
‘Habits of expense’
‘Escape all impertinent questions’
‘Take the trouble of practising’
‘Some degree of credit’
‘Perfect’
‘If it is designedly done’
‘Disinterestedness ’
‘Do not give way to such feelings as these’
‘Caprice of their inclination’
‘What a privilege it was to travel even a short distance with him on the way to infinity’
‘Exploit every available resource that is leading inexorably to the decline of the planet’
‘A society is judged on the way it treats its sick and its elderly’
‘Embarrassed amazement’
‘Gripped by the story’
‘He height of irony’
‘Of no importance to anyone else’
‘The beginning of the death of our marriage’
‘Flames of vituperation’
‘Stronger and less confused’
‘A flush of passion’
‘Regard for privacy’
‘Flush of Wealth’
‘The triumph not only of his mind over the secrets of the universe, but also of his body over death and disability.’
‘But one member of a family where no one person had the right to be more important than any other.’
2016 Oct
‘Newton tercentenary conference’
‘Competitiveness’
‘The universe having neither a beginning nor an end’
‘A potential catastrophe’
‘Hasty’
‘Gratifying mine’
‘Should be said’
‘Ball’
‘Next opportunity of speaking’
‘Chooses to be seen’
‘Taken their seats’
‘Seated Himself’
2016 Sep
‘Till the morrow’
‘Willfully Misunderstand’
‘A natural defect’
‘Pride’
‘…and uncommon I hope it will continue’
‘By the bye’
‘Excellent library’
‘Provoke’
‘Opinions which you choose to call mine’
‘Approbation’
‘The indirect boast’
‘Convey no ideas at all’
‘Blots’
‘Write ill’
‘Mend my own’
‘By purchase than by imitation’
‘Matrimony’
‘She continued to declare that she would’
‘Give over’
2016 Aug
‘A brighter, calmer day might one day dawn.’
‘Problems’
‘Socially disadvantaged’
‘Jubilant’
‘Understanding vulnerability’
‘Stand for anything in life’
‘Run aground’
‘Transitional object’
‘To be shattered’
‘Performance of being herself’
2016 Jul
‘Not care a fig’
2016 Jun
‘Dyslexics’
‘I see tars!’
‘Hand’
2016 May
‘Harshness’
‘Unhand’
‘The past is present now and here’
‘Non-doing’
‘The way you feel’
‘Seeing things clearly’
‘Live in a dream present’
‘Let go of trying to get anywhere at all’
‘With Resolution’
‘Stopping’
‘Withstand’
‘Metal tube’
‘Plan for action and implicit motivation’
‘Below the conscious realm’
‘Wander’
‘Osborn’
‘Kruger’
‘Craftsperson’
‘Small audience’
‘Lucky random event’
‘Build to last’
‘Einstellung effect’
‘Einstellung effect’
‘Slow down time by increasing attention’
‘Experience of novelty’
‘Talent’
‘Find the answer to a question already known’
‘Discomfort’
‘Multiple cultures’
‘Craft of sitting and movement’
‘Zen mind’
‘No end to this practice’
‘Travel’
‘Creativity is the opposite of insanity’
‘The creation of a human connection’
‘Cheat the process’
‘Overjustification’
‘Quality experiences’
‘Little daily experiences’
‘Walking on the beach’
‘Purchase Experiences’
‘Walk outside’
‘Better stories’
‘Improving’
‘Tecnhique. Goals. Feedback’
‘Thinking about success’
‘Focus muscle’
‘Train of thought’
‘Object of its focus’
‘Embrace effort’
‘Polar bear swim’
‘As the saying goes’
‘Mettle’
‘Hobbies’
‘Hobby’
‘Rewards’
‘Forming a path’
‘Gaming’
‘Learning’
‘Dopamine’
‘Dopamine is released before a reward’
‘How it will help’
‘Start With Why’
‘Project milestones’
‘Fault in progress’
‘Dwell on the past’
‘Intrinsic Motivation’
‘Motivation Follows’
‘Dread of doing a task’
‘Put off’
‘Procrastination’
‘Every tomorrow’
‘Unscrambled’
‘Entropy’
‘Discipline’
‘Going faster’
‘The love of money’
‘GDP value’
‘Rationalization’
‘Struggle’
‘Problems will disappear’
‘Scarcity’
‘Nothing to lose’
‘Needs to do’
‘Rote tasks’
‘Cost-effective’
‘Enjoyment paradox’
‘Bathwater’
‘Transactional’
‘Beforehand’
‘Overdue focus’
‘Being asked to assume’
2016 Apr
‘Blessed with the perspicacity to see behind that mask’
‘Under a sheet of ice’
‘Bequeathed’
‘Ennobling and liberating’
‘Exclusive twosome’
‘Now hesitant façade’
‘Lovelorn’
‘Vicinity’
‘Recency bias’
‘Shift focus’
‘Misery to magic’
‘Mental river’
‘Loops’
‘Without trying’
‘Luck’
‘Push through’
‘There must be someone equally courageous behind him or he simply would not be there.’
‘Please notice me too!’
‘Total obsession with science’
‘Darkening private face’
‘Silent beauty’
‘Pay up’
2016 Mar
‘Science and religion’
‘I not we’
‘Black holes are not as black as they seem’
‘Raucous chatter’
‘French’
‘The privilege of rediscovering the world’
‘Raison d’être’
‘Scant time’
‘Dyslexia’
‘Starting school early’
‘Too old to learn to play’
‘Trappings’
‘Simply too young’
‘The goddess of Physics’
‘Depict depression’
‘Walls might be listening’
‘More equal’
‘Ostentatiously indulgent lifestyle’
‘Discourage the customers’
‘neither place could convey the essence of holiness’
‘Kip Thorne’
‘Stalin’s steps in Warsaw’
‘Avoid seeing the monument itself’
‘Anathema’
‘Copernican Revolution’
‘Eased off’
‘Mentally roam the universe’
‘No room for psychological problems’
‘Age’
‘Tired but resilient’
‘Tickle the toes’
‘Shipwrecked sailor’
‘Dropped the sandwiches’
‘Some faint semblance of normality’
‘Faint semblance of normality’
‘Death’
‘Dry leaves’
‘Psychological and emotional detritus’
‘This thing (presumably our marriage)’
2016 Feb
‘Ballroom dancing’
‘Fund of knowledge’
‘As good as his word’
‘A mint of money’
‘Physics widows’
2016 Jan
‘Attention’
‘Self-war’
‘Surfing the urge’
‘Preoccupied’
‘The Heavy Burden of Responsibility’
‘Abdicate’
‘The Most Photographed Celebrity’
‘Lasting friends’
‘In raptures’
‘Success’
‘Implicitly’
‘Mundane problems’
‘Notice tension’
‘You can handle these difficult thoughts and feelings’
‘Suppression increases the symptoms’
‘Permission to think a thought reduces the likelihood of thinking it.’
‘Control’
‘If you panic and push the thought out of your mind, it is going to come back. And when it does, it will return with more authority.’
‘Trying not to think about something guarantees that it is never far from your mind.’
‘The expected progression of events’
‘Eccentricity’
‘Perturbed’
‘Our sad plight’
‘A tradition of non-communication’
‘Ballet’
‘Gait’
‘Array of possibilities’
‘Dodgem ride’
‘Doesn’t matter’
‘Ventured in’
‘Young enough to be immortal’
‘Conscripted’
‘Sense of security’
‘Japanese occupation’
‘…so everyone adjusted’
‘Kwa Geok Choo, Lee Kuan Yew’s wife’
‘Improvisation’
‘A Singapore’
‘Scarcer ’
‘English’
‘Hated Conqueror’
‘Spectacle of medieval punishment’
‘Perished’
2015 Dec
‘A comfort house’
‘Capriciously and casually’
‘Gurkha’
‘Guttural Noises’
‘British Empire’
‘Puttees’
‘Fall of Singapore was the largest capitulation in British history.’
‘No battle was lost until it was over’
‘British coolness’
‘Agog’
‘Corporal punishment’
‘Shakespeare’
‘Married off’
‘Knew how to live’
‘A rich man’s son’
‘Sorry pass’
‘Shame’
‘Crux of the matter’
‘Contagion’
‘DeLorean not required’
‘Future us are strangers’
2015 Nov
‘Ruefully’
‘Mutual sense of irony’
‘Paths that cross will cross again’
‘Bulwark’
‘A bemused scolding’
‘Ascend into a new sky’
‘Spurts’
‘Gometric forms’
‘I see us’
‘Massive prism’
‘Uncharted territory’
‘Real or imagined’
‘Except mine’
‘Collective desire’
‘Honor your poets’
‘This is the end, beautiful friend.’
‘Slipped into unconsciousness’
‘Common trust’
‘Bought what he wanted’
‘Future reward’
‘Justify choosing whichever reward you think about first.’
‘Loss-averse’
‘Make the future matter’
‘Once you get started, you’ll want to keep going.’
‘Create that distance’
‘Temptation’
‘The time to resist temptation is tomorrow’
‘Larger reward’
‘A miserable exercise in self-hate’
‘Buying things’
‘False rewards’
‘Satisfied’
‘False promise of reward’
‘False rewards’
‘Wise men fish here’
‘The promise of happiness’
‘Moral licensing’
‘Break rule every day for the rest of the week’
‘Aim to reduce the variability’
‘Vindication’
‘Lack of safety’
‘Hasselblad’
‘Come up and see my etchings’
‘Commercial path’
‘Exercising my edge’
‘Romantic over a working one’
‘Share our trust’
‘Goal-sabotaging behavior’
‘Wants into shoulds’
‘Moral reasoning’
‘Virtuous’
‘Moral perfection’
‘You don’t have to be evil to be different’
‘Troubled’
‘Slim Shadow’
‘Dreams’
‘Improvisation’
‘Truck driver’
‘How we can best support the most exhausted version of ourselves’
‘Self-control deteriorates’
‘Better manage your stress’
‘Relaxation Technique’
‘Heart rate variability’
‘Cheesecake’
‘Energy-management instinct’
‘Both mind and body’
‘Everything was mapped out by those before us.’
‘The fellow with the cowboy mouth’
‘Mercurial’
‘Janis’
‘Too chicken’
‘Sweet times’
‘Memory games’
‘Impulses’
‘We don’t even realize we’re making a choice’
‘Search souls’
‘Neuroeconomists’
‘Get in the way’
‘Two people living inside our mind’
‘Prefrontal cortex’
‘Frolic once behind a bush’
‘Remember what you really want’
‘Oolong’
‘Ask for money’
‘Repulsed’
‘Data’
‘The most willpower’
‘Poetry is not mortal’
‘Seeing himself’
‘Diffuse the intimacy of the moment’
2015 Oct
‘Us’
‘Closer’
‘You can be both’
‘Appear I wasn’t waiting’
‘Because I know’
‘Youth’
‘Dreamers’
‘Ambition’
‘You fed me when I was hungry’
‘Ten-minute thing’
2015 Sep
‘Pituitary’
‘Doughnut’
‘Second-class wizards’
‘Magic’
‘Coney Island’
‘Inhumanity’
‘Insanity’
‘Stop’
‘Laughter’
‘Only two’
‘There’s always new stuff’
‘Too curious about the future’
‘Rescued’
‘Vow’
‘Young questions’
‘A poetic curse’
‘We sing together’
‘Inner turmoil’
‘Betrayed’
‘Feel’
‘Transform, not mirror’
‘Glut’
‘Neither’
‘Church led him to God’
‘Until you see it’
‘Silence’
‘Self-indulgent’
‘Isn’t us’
‘Just kids’
‘Mutually understood’
‘Tripping’
‘Bob’
‘Bemused’
‘Gnawed’
‘Books’
‘Confusion’
‘Diffuse mode’
‘Perception’
‘Real solutions’
‘Focused thinking’
‘Glimpse’
‘Enjoy’
‘Intense effort before sleeping’
2015 Aug
‘Eternal regret’
‘Enormous decisions’
‘Speak succinctly’
‘Clarity’
‘Insipid’
‘Present’
‘What’s important’
‘Release’
‘Token system’
‘Small changes’
‘Frederick Herzberg’
‘Progress’
‘Frictionless’
‘Almost effortless’
‘Boundaries’
‘Saying ‘no’
‘Muddle our clarity’
‘Nonessentials’
‘Keep the main thing’
‘Overvalue nonessentials’
‘Clarity’
‘Having to say ‘No’
‘A no’
‘Fiduciary responsibility’
‘Take a nap’
‘Play’
‘Withstood’
‘Be bored’
‘Design their lives’
‘Clarity’
‘Newlyweds’
‘Learn to be helpless’
‘This isn’t for me’
‘Making it all work’
‘Valuing of what we own’
‘Singular priority’
‘Manage themselves’
‘Success can distract us’
‘Highest contribution’
‘Not a good enough reason’
‘True happiness lies within’
‘By being in it’
‘And then’
‘That’s what it is’
‘Learn by doing’
‘Lightbulbs’
‘Totality’
‘Negativity’
‘Bliss’
‘Dive within’
‘Doin’ ma thin’
‘Have to go’
‘Dreaming’
‘Diving within’
‘More and more you’
‘Dying twice’
‘Vedic science’
‘Go off’
‘Focus and meditation’
‘Doughnut’
‘Everything’s speeding up’
‘Within’
‘Golf-ball-sized’
‘Big fish’
‘Just do them things’
‘Intuition’
‘Dig them up’
‘Good painting’
‘Wrongly’
‘Unified Field’
2015 Jul
‘Furthest from power’
‘Widest circle’
‘Now’
‘Emotional forest’
‘Triple focus’
‘Suitcase on the head’
‘Nothing is separate’
‘Person attached to the arm’
‘Endemic restlessness’
‘Ethics’
‘Realize’
‘One moment’
‘Non-doing’
‘Learn to surf’
‘Thwart your efforts’
‘Advertising it’
‘Breath’
‘Capture moments’
‘Where you already are’
‘Peter out’
‘Buddhist buddha’
‘Unfolding’
‘Unappreciated’
‘Pacesetters’
‘Shrewder’
‘Inertia of ruts’
‘Survival mode’
‘Squander’
‘Strategy’
‘Directing attention’
‘Gong’
‘Mindfullness’
‘Still budding’
‘Unruly impulses’
Old enough
‘Wheel’
‘Out of bed’
‘Fray’
‘Brink’
‘In in’
‘Shake on it’
‘As far as we could’
‘Rolled into’
‘Bankrupt’
‘Bullshit filter’
‘The right person’
‘Future depends on you’
2015 Jun
‘Ordeal’
‘Free car’
‘Wouldn’t work’
‘Brisk’
‘Vodka’
‘Anything to do with’
‘Too much reality’
‘Vacations’
‘Postnuptial’
‘Put a ring on it’
‘Assumptions’
‘Prison’
‘Formative experiences’
‘Errol’
‘All these things out there’
2015 May
‘Minimum’
‘Tough childhood’
‘Works them to the bone’
‘Flying cars in 140 characters’
‘Best minds’
‘Poof’
‘Nothing appear to be Something’
‘Pursuing Internet stuff’
‘Red S’
‘PR’
‘Made jewelry’
‘Labored’
‘Symmetry’
‘Overwrought’
‘Replace loneliness with trust’
‘No place to go’
‘Smiled and listened’
‘Investing her own hopes’
‘Wear out my unwelcome’
‘Move along’
‘Tears of wax’
‘Dozed off’
‘Prison breakfast’
‘Clocked him’
‘Brownstone’
‘Huaraches’
‘Clark Kent moment’
‘Swipe the book’
‘Unrequited love’
‘Sheer jutters’
‘Attention to attention’
‘Can’t access it’
‘Neural scaffolding’
‘SEL program in Singapore’
‘Luscious marshmallows’
‘SEL Program’
‘Peace corner’
‘Communal mythology’
‘Stimulate openness’
2015 Apr
‘And again.’
‘Optimal concentration’
‘Repeated practice’
‘Daydreaming defeats practice’
‘Tune out’
‘Simple decision rules’
‘Old and destitute’
‘Complete absence of a signal’
‘Superficial knowledge’
‘System blindness’
‘Healthy forest’
‘System awareness’
‘Suravival imperative’
‘Person curating data’
‘Compassionate’
‘Standoffish’
2015 Mar
‘Unusual colours’
‘Hungered to be one’
‘To be an artist’
‘Invisible barriers’
‘Choice about my reactioon’
‘Politesse’
‘Social dyslexia’
‘Empathy’
‘Reading faces’
‘Diaphragmatic breathing’
‘Cherished’
‘The messenger’
‘Anything but myself’
‘Smitten’
‘Aversive’
‘Analgesic property’
‘Emotional empathy’
‘Swan’
‘Predisposes’
‘Hyperaware’
Focus: Attention to Details
‘Self-awareness’
‘Networks for attention’
‘Quiet the agitated amygdala’
‘Attention regulates emotion’
‘Meta-cognition’
‘Supportive tone of voice’
‘Self-awareness and power’
‘Self-awareness’
‘Me & I’
‘Nature’
‘Neural energy’
‘Neural buzz’
‘Opinions about opinions’
‘Panoramic awareness’
‘Everything flows through’
‘Neural decoupling’
‘Chatter of our own minds’
‘Random bits of life’
‘Creative cocoon’
‘Uninterrupted private moments’
2015 Feb
‘Mind wandering’
‘Spender or saver’
‘List of gifts’
‘Million dollars worth of love’
‘Wedding rings’
‘A symbol of that thought’
2015 Jan
‘Personality’
‘Psychological responses’
‘Not telling his feelings’
‘Relationship, not a project’
‘Togetherness’
‘Focused attention’
‘Doing it for us’
‘Quality time together’
‘Simply receive’
‘Enjoy them together’
‘Written words’
‘Words of Affirmation’
‘Feel appreciated’
‘Demands’
‘Courage’
‘Deepest meaning’
‘Emotional love tank’
‘Arrived’
‘Two years’
‘Tingles’
‘Adequate supply of affection’
‘Primary emotional love language’
‘Communicators of love’
‘Emotional love language’
2014 Dec
‘Basal ganglia’
2014 Nov
‘Nimbleness in life’
‘The neural barometer’
‘Varieties of attention’
2014 Sep
‘Ellen Langer’
‘Overwhelmed by information’
‘Snakes and spiders’
‘Variety of digital screen’
‘Drink more’
‘Self-centered’
‘Meander through the demands’
‘Lost in the digital world’
‘No accidental correlation’
‘Socially Relevant Information’
‘Socially crucial data’
‘Let them happen’
‘Mind’s repertoire’
‘Bottom-up, not top-down’
2014 Aug
‘Zone out’
‘Tussle’
‘Frazzle’
‘Scattered attention’
‘Distributed capacity’
‘Pervasive Computing’
‘Human attention’
‘In the flesh’
‘Hamper learning’
‘A poverty of attention’
‘Know instantly’
‘Disrupting our connections’
‘What we see’
‘Your focus is your reality’
‘Attendere’
‘Leaders and three types of focus’
‘Threesome: inner, other, and outer focus’
‘The number of presses’
‘Persistent urge’
‘Nonregular rewards’
‘The lever’
‘Not hopeless’
‘Drugs usage stages’
‘Arm yourself to fight’
‘Stress feeds the demons’
‘Internet and chocolate’, yay!
2014 Apr
‘What’s next’
2014 Mar
‘Pain and shock’
‘Finding answers ’
‘Weary but not sleepy’
‘Thrust upon’
‘Stocks’
‘Standpoint of economy’
‘Dying to die on Mars’
‘Managing Idiocracy’
‘The first principles of a problem’
‘Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not’
‘Cannot see past errors’
‘Feel good every single day ’
‘Endpoint’
‘Dancing mice in tuxedos’
2014 Jan
‘Eluded’
2013 Dec
‘Buy yourself an hour!’
2013 Jul
‘Bitter struggle ’
‘Crushed’
‘Swap the villain and the hero’